Tutorial for Test Kitchen with Azure

I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to create a vagrant image using Matt Wrock’s excellent blog as a resource, and haven’t quite gotten it there yet. Plus, if I go the vagrant route, people have to have powerful machines on which to run test kitchen. The more I worked through that option, the more I because discouraged and dismayed that this may just never work for us.

And then I discovered azure.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not a Microsoft fanboy. But there are some great advantages to going this route:

Microsoft by definition is going to get Windows images right. So I don’t have to fight it anymore. I can just use it. It just works, just like it should.

Stuart Preston wrote a plugin for me that gets anyone past the learning curve very quickly. With this plugin you don’t have to really know anything about azure to use it for test kitchen

These reasons are so compelling, this is what our teams will be going with in the coming months. It’s critical that everyone be able to run test kitchen easily, and azure gives us the best shot at doing that without a lot of drama.